Ted Talks

In the Ted Talk, Jonathan Harris: the Web's Secret Stories, where Jonathan presents the "I feel fine" database. In the database, feelings are recorded and are expressed through a variety of different informational design aspects. The audience can view the visualize the different feelings from people all over in a variety of different ways. These feelings are broken down in select groups as selective as "women who feel addicted in their 20s when it was cloudy in Bangladesh". On this blog there are photos that exemplify the feelings posted by members. I really like this program because the creators are creatively illustrating their results in an aesthetic way to draw in their audience.

In the Ted Talk, Shereen El Feki: Pop culture in the Arab world, Shereen expresses how the Arab culture is learning and borrowing trademarks from the Western pop culture. She brings in two examples, barbie and pop star music videos. In the end she concludes she doesn't believe the Arab culture is 'stealing' our ways, more of the two cultures are meshing. I don't personally see this as a poor thing, every tribe should be influenced by each other to be open minded and expand their horizons past their own traditions.

In the Ted Talk, Rives at 4a.m. Rives speaks about all the unfortunate coincidences that take place at 4AM. He expresses how it is documented that work was being done for the inauguration at 4am. This video was very interesting to me solely because on the regular, I awake at 4am, usually at the warehouse. I cannot even say how many times I have been working on projects that early in the morning, where the most ridiculous mishappenings take place which hinder your work ethic. It is interesting to realize that the most outrageous incidents happen at the early hours of the morning. Why don't this incidents occur at normal hours of the day?

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11th Hour

In today's class, watching the 11th Hour opened the eyes of everyone in the auditorium. Throughout the documentary, faces dropped, minds started rambling, conclusions were brainstormed. The documentary emphasized the fault of us as humans on the life threatening disasters. As a whole, our planet has acquired exponential growth by using reserved artificial light from millions of years ago. Without this light billions of us would not exist to this day. As humans, we depend on oil; in fact we wouldn't survive without oil. We, humans, are responsible for the damage that has occurred. Smoking alone increases CO2 every day increasing global warming. In fact, natural disasters are not considered natural, they are more of a man made consequence created by ourselves. We choose to be selfish and corrupt our planet and now we must pay for it. The worse is yet to come as humans have not figured out how to change their ways. Hurricane Katrina was only the beginning. Think about the average five million toxins that are dumped into the ocean every day. As designers, master manipulators, creative directors, leaders, we as a whole can improve our planet and brainwash our target audience. Influencing many to use products in which don't harm the environment must begin to become a ra deteriating pid growing fad. From a design standpoint, as long as something 'looks cool' to a non-designer's eyes, they'll be sucked into purchasing and utilizing the eco-friendly product. We can make a difference, we can save our planet, decrease the CO2, minimize the lost lives of many due to the "natural" disasters. If we have the power to do this, how come no one has taken the initiative to begin? I propose one shall organize a designing cult which solely focuses on the de-cherishing atmosphere.